 | 1893 - 844 pages
...; " and this he put into the mouth of the king in the " Passing of Arthur," where he cries : — O me ! for why is all around us here As if some lesser...Till the High God behold it from beyond, And enter it and make it beautiful ? He was disposed to doubt the real existence of a material world, and frequently... | |
 | 1909 - 740 pages
...acritas " (Lucius Attius preserved in Nonius Marcellus, 493, 14). The REV. E. С. Е. OWEN'S quotation, As if some lesser god had made the world, But had not force to shape it as he would. is from Tennyson's ' The Passing of Arthur,' 11. 14, 15. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. " Equal to either fate,"... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1898 - 248 pages
...of His fields, But in His ways with men I found Him not, I waged His wars, and now I pass and die. 0 me ! for why is all around us here, As if some lesser god had made the world And had not force to shape it as he would Till the High God behold it from beyond, And enter it and... | |
 | 1873 - 740 pages
...His fields, But in His ways with men I find Him not. • I waged His wars, and now I pass and die. 0 me ! for why is all around us here As if some lesser...Till the High God behold it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful 1 Or else as if the world were wholly fair, But that these eyes of men are... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1873 - 340 pages
...of His fields, But in His ways with men I find Him not. I waged His wars, and now I pass and die. O me ! for why is all around us here As if some lesser...Till the High God behold it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful ? Or else as if the world were wholly fair, But that these eyes of men are... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 pages
...of His fields, But in His ways with men I find Him not. I waged His wars, and now I pass and die. O me ! for why is all around us here As if some lesser...Till the High God behold it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful ? Or else as if the world were wholly fair, But that these eyes of men are... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1879 - 464 pages
...of His fields, But in His ways with men I find Him not. I waged His wars, and now I pass and die. O me ! for why is all around us here As if some lesser...Till the High God behold it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful ? Or else as if the world were wholly fair, But that these eyes of men are... | |
 | PETER BAYNE, M.A., LL.D - 1879 - 564 pages
...of His fields, But in His ways with men I find Him not. I waged His wars, and now I pass and die. 0 me ! for why is all around us here As if some lesser...Till the High God behold it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful ? Or else as if the world were wholly fair, But that these eyes of men are... | |
 | 1879 - 690 pages
...His fields, But in His ways with men I rind Him not. I waged His wars, and now l pass and die. O niel for why is all around us here, As if some lesser god...had not force to shape it as he would, Till the High tiod behold it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful? For I, being simple, thought to work... | |
 | 1901 - 702 pages
...byappropriate uses of the subjunctive. I quote, however, a few others as further illustrations : — " As if some lesser god had made the world, But had...Till the High God behold it from beyond. And enter it, and make it beautiful? Or else as if the world were wholly fair." — The Passing of Arthur, II.... | |
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O me! for why is all around us here As if some lesser god had made the world, But had not force to shape it as he would, Till the High God behold it from beyond, And enter it, and make it beautiful? 
